From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-02-06T13:01:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby extension for IBM Via Voice TTS

From the other responses to this, I'm thinking I don't understand what Mike 
is asking, but...

Mike Hall wrote:
> There's many voice and synthesis parameters that control
> the speaking voice, like pitch, volume, speed, head, gender, etc.
....
> - make them look and act like instance variables?

That's my prefered method.  What I like best about Ruby is the blurring of 
variables and methods.  Ergo:

        def pitch=(value)
        def volume=(value)
        def speed=(value)
        attr_reader :pitch, :volume, :speed

is what I'd like to see, as an API /user/.  How you define the = methods is 
something I don't care about.  Hey!  That's OOP!  ;-)

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